| diaLearn – a learning community on language, culture and communication in international business closely linked with dialogin The Delta Intercultural Academy.
diaLearn is the virtual campus for students of various B.A., M.A. and M.B.A programmes offered by Hochschule Konstanz Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung University of Applied Sciences, Germany.
diaLearn was developed during the second phase of the web.MBA project, funded by the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Baden-Württemberg, implemented jointly with thinkhouse GmbH, Mönchengladbach, and based on the freeware learning management system Moodle.
This course aims to develop the language and communication skills required to take part successfully in international negotiations and meetings in English. This course is designed to develop the communicative and linguistic skills you require when presenting in English. This course material supplements the face-to-face course Business Terminology and Translation. This course is designed to develop the communicative and linguistic skills you require when writing business texts such emails, letter, reports and job applications in English.
This course examines aspects of communication and culture and what role these play in interaction in international business and management.
This course introduces you to systematically preparing job applications and producing application documents. You have the opportunity to practise writing resumes/cvs and cover/ing letter and to receive feedback on your texts. This learning platform provides you with information and reference texts, models and interactive exercises, as well as with an electronic application dictionary and an electronic phrasebook. Learning activities include online assignments, discussions and chats. There will also be face-to-face meetings in which further questions and your own application documents can be discussed. This online platform contains the assignments, course material, and additional learning activities for this course. You need to visit it regularly - at least once a week - and inform yourself about dates and deadlines. This online platform contains the assignments, course material, and additional learning activities for this course. You need to visit it regularly - at least once a week - and inform yourself about dates and deadlines This course introduces you into basic skills needed for academic writing and provides you with an understanding of what is required for good academic discourse. You will learn about and practice effective reading techniques, notetaking, paragraph writing, researching, critical reading, critical analysis of sources, organising ideas, paraphrasing, summarising, acknowledging sources (quoting, citing), structuring a paper, discourse and language functions (defining, classifying, comparing/contrasting, analysing, exemplifying), as well as revising and editing. This course introduces you to systematically preparing job applications and producing application documents. You have the opportunity to practise writing resumes/cvs and cover/ing letter and to receive feedback on your texts. This learning platform provides you with information and reference texts, models and interactive exercises, as well as with an electronic application dictionary and an electronic phrasebook. Learning activities include online assignments, discussions and chats. There will also be face-to-face meetings in which further questions and your own application documents can be discussed.
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